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Dear Johann A very tortured position to be in? Your eloquent account reminds of the Buddhism student who complained from the meeting floor about the ideas being expressed by the master on the stage. The student railed that the master had no authority to justify his words. The master invited the student to come onto the stage - which, of course, the angry student did. All the best with the nightmare. keith On 24/1/17, 9:56 am, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design on behalf of Johann van der Merwe" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote: >I wrote "What is apparent in many works, is the matter of verifiable >content or context that can be linked to a `truth value': Lyotard's >pragmatic narratives de-emphasizes the truth value in favour of "its force >of telling, its `dramatic' or performative effects" (Carroll 1989:159), >.... the burden placed on the reader seems to be an unequal one, for as >Lyotard himself declares (Carroll 1989:26), his effective activity is >placed `outside the system', thus allowing for his texts to be `misread' >as >unproblematically literal. "But how can we take it literally, in Lyotard's >own terms, when to do so is to promote the domination of the prescriptive >game in an effort to do away with domination?" (Carroll 1989:162). ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------